Photo Gallery of the Miskitu Indians

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The following pictures come from Bernard Nietschmann's dissertation, Between Land and Water:  the subsistence ecology of the Miskito Indians, Eastern Nicaragua.  Diss  University of Wisconsin, 1970.

Family Picture at Home

Turtle Farming on the Coast

Unloading turtles on the beach in the afternoon in Tasbapauni.  Men are dragging turtles harpooned on the banks. Miskitu family in 1910.  The photograph was possibly taken in Tasbapauni from the Moravian postcard series.

Family Pictures

Miskitu Hunter with Prized Shotgun

Many of the Miskitu men were hunters and gathers.  Since they traded with the Creoles and British, many acquired guns and became the dominant Indian group on the Eastern Coast with these new commodities. 
This shotgun has greatly increased the effectiveness of hunting white lipped peccary.
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